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Word: tossings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sophomore quarterback connected with tight end Scott Adams on a 22-yd. touchdown pass in the first quarter and then hooked up with split end Jerey Sadberry on a 27-yd. scoring toss in the third period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Huskies Blank Big Red; Holy Cross Breezes | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...much a literary figure as a legal one, Holmes' major work, The Common Law, is held as one of the classics of legal scholarship more than a century after its publication. Toss in Holmes' friendships with the major figures of the Northeastern aristocracy (Henry and William James and Henry Cabot Lodge, among others), not to mention the three separate battle wounds he suffered as an officer in the Civil War, and you have a life history that could intimidate even the hardiest of biographical explorers...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Exploring a Great Legal Mind | 9/23/1989 | See Source »

Bolshevism was mentioned. "It was like hitting Hitler with a torpedo. He assumed the platform manner on a small scale, the toss of the head, the laugh of scorn, the sweep of the hand. Only the snarl was missing. 'I have only one fear,' Hitler said. 'It is that the countries around us, into which the poison of Bolshevism is eating its way, will succumb to the Red wave one after another. Moscow is seeking to dominate Europe. We shall never permit that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Light Luncheon with the Fuhrer | 8/28/1989 | See Source »

...uninitiated, the sport may seem ridiculously simple: take a long pole ; with a line, attach a fake bug and toss it at some unsuspecting fish. But the disciplines involved in this seemingly simple act take years to master. Novices often quit in disgust or spend hours on the river, pleading to heaven for the strike of just one trout. Eventually, with practice, the casts begin to land right, without a splash, and then one day a trout rises to examine the offering -- and strikes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Zen and The Art of Fly-Fishing | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

START with a love triangle, its vertices a married couple and a single, widowed woman. Add that the three are artists living, year-round, next to a pond on the Cape. Toss in a schism that threatens to destroy forever the 10-year bond that had kept them knit together...

Author: By Emily Mieras, | Title: A Love Triangle on the Cape | 7/18/1989 | See Source »

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